MSNBC: Family travel tips for summer

This post brought to you by VISIT FLORIDA. All opinions are 100% mine.

I got one for you: VISIT FLORIDA and enjoy the beaches, the great weather, the many attractions and sights to see. Summertime is excellent for enjoying all that and then some and I love Florida, because there will never be a boring moment for anyone.

If you don't believe me then take a look at all the following vacation packages:
-- Swim with manatees in the wild.
--Play tennis, take cooking classes and get a $250 shopping spree in Destin.
-- Explore Anna Maria Island, Longboat Key and Bradenton on bike and Segway.
-- Visit LEGOLAND and its new Water Park.
-- Learn to surf on Cocoa Beach and lunch with an astronaut at Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast.
-- Train dolphins with the pros.
-- Be awed by The Breakers Palm Beach, legendary, idyllic and magnificent.
-- Experience three days of pampering at the spa at PGA National Resort.
-- Play on three championship golf courses.
-- A week-long, classic family beach vacation at St. Pete Beach.
-- Visit historic St. Augustine, Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth, the St. Augustine lighthouse and the Pirate & Treasure Museum.
-- Go offshore fishing.

These are vacation packages which you win by entering the Florida's Three for Free Giveaway. The Grand Prize winner will walk away with the three Florida vacation packages of their choice and nine additional winners will win one vacation each.

You can also VISIT FLORIDA on Facebook and hit the 'Like' button to enter, then select three different Florida vacation packages from the twelve choices and you are done. Don't postpone, because the sweepstakes began on May 24, 2012 and will end at 12:00 a.m. E.T. June 30, 2012.

I chose the trip to LEGOLAND, sponsored by Visit Central Florida, because the inner-child in me would love it. My second choice fell on training a dolphin and working side-by-side with the Marine Mammal Training Staff at Miami Seaquarium with a chance at a dolphin ride across the pool and bathing in the luxury of the Sonesta Bayfront Hotel Coconut Grove afterwards, sponsored by Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. Training a dolphin has always been one of my dreams.

Last, but not least, since I love historic sights, I would enjoy visiting St. Augustine which is America’s oldest European-settled city and Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth, the St. Augustine lighthouse, the Pirate & Treasure Museum, and walk the streets which have been traveled by Spanish conquistadors, all sponsored by Ponce de Leon's World Famous Fountain of Youth.

You don't need to look anywhere else. VISIT FLORIDA and have the time of your life!